Starcraft was originally going to be a licensed 40K video game, but Games Workshop and Blizzard had a falling out over the direction Blizzard wanted to take the story. GW withdrew from their agreement and Blizzard repurposed what had already been developed into Starcraft. The story is similar for Warcraft, and that's why Warcraft orcs are green.
@@javierpeiroaguado4503 I don't doubt that 40k inspired star craft, but the game that blizzard made to try to get warhammer licensing was warcraft, not starcraft
Question to all sci fi fans "do you wish to live in your favorite SF world ?" Star Trek fans ; "Of course !!" Star Wars fans ; "Oh yeah sure !!" Expanse fans ; "Could be awesome !!" .... WH40K fans ; "HELL NOOOOO !!"
I will once again say, you need to react to both parts of "Every Single Warhammer 40k (WH40k) Faction Explained" by Bricky. They go into more detail on the individual factions and are pretty funny.
Yeah this video was like a less detailed and more dry version of brickys introduction. It had a lot of good art though. The aesthetic of warhammer really is unique. As fbj noted, humanity in 40k is a much more interesting faction then humans in just about any other sci fy. Always so sanitized and striving to be congruent with the beliefs and values of today instead of considering how they might change in the future, and not for the better.
Got Part 1 and 2 both already on the list i just had that as my first recommendation from a Friend. But the list of stuff to watch is already pretty big. I think im gonna switch between cinematics and lore Videos for some variety but im not completely sure yet.
Bricky is good and fun he also does the adeptus ridiculous as some may have mentioned (he's not the most accurate lore wise but one of the most entertaining 40k people) luetin is good far more accuracy but a little dry, I'd say 40k theories and boldermort are right between these two.
@@garethmitchell7723 Honestly I wouldnt compare baldermort to any of them, hes way above the rest. He literally writes stories and voice acts them in a way that satisfies lore. The rest just report what they learned.
Fun fact: the 40k ships (the smallest class being around the size of a star destroyer from star wars, 1.6 kms long) can fight at 25/50/75/95% of the speed of light, all the ships fights you will ever see in cinematic are not meant to be seen by human eyes (with exceptions)
What does that even mean? All speed in space is relative so if you are fighting another ship it's the relative speed of the ships that matters. If two ships are traveling 50% the speed of light in the same direction the engament is happening at 0 velocity. They clearly don't approach each other at anything like that velocity as if they did they would just shoot past and that would be it. Since they actually manoeuvre in combat it's clearly not the case. Maybe someone at GW who doesn't understand basic physics wrote that but it's clearly rubbish.
@@101Mant the lore says so, like the phalanx in the book "flight of the Einstein" (though it wasn't fighting, it was still travelling in real space at 75% of the speed of light) plus i was referring from the outside perspective, us, the 40k ships engages at first at distant lenghts of hundreads of thousands of kms with weapons such as black hole launchers (the example of the speranza mechanicus capital ship), nova cannons etc... To later engage in closer quarters with lanches and then even closer with macrocannons and similar weapons The eldar ships are more agile and faster than imperial ships and are said to be able to dodge macrocannons (which travel at 50% of the speed of light or more or less, the macrocannon shell firepower changes every book, for example in one, a cobra class destroyer (1.5kms) had macrocannon shells (50 meters large at least) capable of three teratons of firepower, and in others is much less. it's not realistic i know, it just does, and even then, the lore is quite fragmented here and there) If we have to put an imperial star destroyer (SW) against a cobra class destroyer, the ISD crew couldn't even see (theoretically) the 40k ship as the cobra travels at 95% of light while the ISD (at minimum, travels at a thousand km/s) which is impressive but thousands, if not millions of times slower than the cobra class, making it impossible to be seen by the isd crew i know physic very poorly, so... sorry for saying something wrong, i don't know how such different speeds interacts with the crew of both sides, i just know that without some technology the iom ships have, for which we don't know nothing, the only guess i can make is something that slow time inside the ships, otherwise the crew would just die in either getting squashed from the speeds, and they also couldn't guide the ship or fire the weapons properly
@@valostheroman The black library authors have put out a reasonable amount of contradictory information with how things work over the years, so you can take some of it with a pinch of salt, especially when there can be so many contributors and perceptions of the lore. General speed and speed in battle are going to be 2 different things as well, there'd be little point of blitzing past them in a flash especially if you missed the shots taken. A lot of the Imperiums strongest weapons primarily face forwards of the ships so you will want to spend as much time facing them before you close in with a slower speed to utilise the broadsides and boarding actions. Whilst the ISD crew may not be able to see the ship with their own eyes, which would be expected being in the void at incredible distances or even speed if flying by, the ships targetting systems and sensors probably can As mentioned above, its about relative speeds, you may feel the pull that you get from fast acceleration but when maintaining a speed there is no sensation, the weapons firing rounds that fast would be dealt with by the recoil of the weapon, unless you're touching it, you wouldn't be impacted by it.
@@chrisf7730 the sensors detecting them would make very little to help them, the isd weapons are operated by humans and not by ais, and even if they were actually manged by an ai, as we have seen, the artificial intelligence in star wars is mostly human-ranged (*MOSTLY*) and can reacts with little difference from the standard human, their reaction time is simply not enought to compete, meanwhile the cobra class is probably making fun of them for some time manipulation technology inside the ship, which is probably the best explaination about those fights (the imperium of man, while technologically stagnant, it does have some, like the stasis bombs), i stated the phalanx earlier simply because i don't remember where the battles which quoted the lunar class cruiser speed or the gloriana speed are from, the phalanx quote is the only one i remember the book
20:04 the red dude is called "magnus the red" and he is basically the supreme leader of the thousand sons (the egyption-esque chaos space marines that he is shown with) the lore on the faciton is really tragic and good if you want to dig into it ^^
" Ravenor Trilogy " and " Eisenhorn Trilogy ". A very good place to start reading about the 40K universe that does not make you jump straight into space marine dominated mass slaughter stories.
@@PreceptorGrant I was about to suggest Ciaphas Cain. That series was my doorway into the WH40K world, because it's generally easily digestible and understandable, even if you don't QUITE get the details at first. I wasn't entirely sure what the difference between a boltgun and a stubber was until he describes bolt shells as basically micro-sized gyrojet rocket bullets with mass-reactive explosive tips, and that stubbers were basically just slug-throwing guns. Ciaphas Cain is a great starting point, and good for a chuckle as well. One of the few places you'll actually find laughs in that horrible universe. The other would be ironic humor, like Iron Snakes marines puzzling over why they'd been invited to a party, or their confusion when someone says they all look the same when they can see all the myriad details that define each other. Or the time when, after his brothers found his severed arm in a room full of dead Orks and presumed dead, Alessio Cortez's flippant response to his Chapter Master pointing out he's missing an arm. "No I'm not. It's over there!" At which point he just casually walks over, picks up his severed arm and hooks if over his shoulder as if it was a towel. (I think they ended up putting his arm back on later, surgically reinstalling it). It was either that, or he said something like "Oh there it is. I was looking for that!"
Its the reason they're my favorite faction, in a universe where everyone tries to outdo the other with dark broodiness, they're actually enjoying themselves and don't take themselves to seriously.
Yeah, Warhammer 40k has been going on since 1987, and we are currently at the 9th Edition of rules, miniatures, and lore, as the three are inexorably linked. Games Workshop also has a division called Black Library dedicated to publishing their Warhammer Fantasy and 40k novels and audio dramas, and they've been going at it since 1997. So yeah. They've got a LOT under their belt. As an aside, the Horus Heresy series of novels has seen some success in the wider markets outside of the 40k fandom, and I would recommend picking up a copy of the first book, 'Horus Rising', once you start familiarizing yourself with the setting some more.
Unproven. Neither side will admit it because reasons. The artist who designed the Zerg claims that when he started designing the Zerg, he literally had NO IDEA what the Tyranids were. (Whether that's true, or whether he's just following the company line of "admit nothing", we'll probably never know.)
Also the human marines have a lot of visual similarities to Warhammer's Space Marines. And with a bit of a strech Protoss are similar to Craftworld Eldars with them having technology far superior to humans.
The first recognizable incarnation of Tyranid warriors appeared in Advanced Space Crusade in 1990... Starcraft was first made in 1998 ... so warhammer 40k was there first ... Blizzard was not even a THING back then ... the was first made in 1991 ...
Luetin09, I don't even play Warhammer 40k, but I watch all of his videos, they are that good. Ive read in many comments that there are many like me, Luetin09 videos are entertaining and pull you into a world that you are normally not involved in or have any connections with.
Ironic that the emperor wanted to destroy religion to get rid of the chaos gods, but humanity's worship of him has (as I understand it) actually made him into a 5th (6th?) Chaos god with all the powers that entails
warhammer 40k is not about videos. It's about reading. Almost all of videos about 40k lore is fan made. But as a neopyhte to universe, video format is better to initially understand the lore.
While this guy is mostly right, "Helsreach" is a fantastic warhammer fan-animation that should be good for reacting to. And there are animations by someone named "Sodaz" which are archived on youtube and should be free game for reactions. And there is always the ever controversial warhammer + which is actually pumping out a lot of lore accurate warhammer animations, about 1 every 2 weeks. (although the animation quality itself varies and you cant react their shows without something like a timer)
I'm a fanboi for the lore - I've bought most of the limited editions and special releases, and each book brings twists and new light to the universe. Books like Horus Rising, Brotherhood of the Snake, and the Ciaphas Cain series are brilliant and immersive. I am thankful for the authors of the 40k universe to bring so much joy not just to me, but to many others in the fandom.
There is in theory a 40k movie made, but it's quality is so bad that it's not worth watching. BUT there exists a 40k series that is basically like a move. It's fan made like so many great 40k videos. It's called Helsreach and is 13 parts. You also don't need super deep lore knowledge to start watching it.
20:56 This is one of the "adepta sororitas", basically a battle nun faction because the church was forbidden to have (male) soldiers so they dont gain too much military power ... so they just rolled with it and exploited the shit out of this loophole. And the funny thing is ... the prayers do seam to work sometimes as their faction is known to work wonders that seem impossible at first. (one of them is even basically immortal from what i understand .. or more speciffic gets revived over and over again, but memory on that part is a little fuzzy for me)
It is a great reaction that you make about the Warhammer universe but let me give you a clarification on a topic that other users have commented on but is wrong. We must start by saying that neither Starcraft nor Warcraft were going to be GW games since there was never any agreement or deal between the two companies. That is a lie told by a famous old fan forum created by wh fans that the majority of the fandom believed without have even investigated. Regarding the similarities, it is simple, both Blizzard and GW were inspired by the same works for their universes, being DUNE, starshiptroopers, alien xenomorph, Ender's Game, the novel among others, so they share basic concepts of science fiction. PD: Warhammer 40k was born as a parody of everything famous from the 80s in addition to copying and pasting many fantasy elements into space in order to sell more.
14:30 as for the Tau "diplomacy" .. it has a very dark side to it. The basic structure ist that for around 100 years or so they really do try to be diplomatic with you, but wont stop until your race/planet submits to the tau to be integraded "for the greater good" After that grace period they are going to ask you one last time if you wont join the tau empire (and basically submit yourself fully and handig over all governance over yourselves) ... if your answer ist still "no" .. the tau have basically had enough of your shit and start indaving your territory to take you by force. And since they operate huge ass mechas with unbelieveably strong weaponary piloted by elite forces that are hyper specialized in what they do, the outcome is basically your civilization gets wiped out. And to make them even more dangerous to the setting in its whole ... these giant space-faring mechas with extremely advanced weapons technology are built by a race (the tau themselves) that is barely 3000 years old since they discovered the use of fire. THATS how crazily fast they advance their civilization.
For Me, I play the games and learn the story along the way because it is straight up impossible learn and know everything because it is so deep and complicated. So find a faction that interests you and go from there. Great reaction vid. This universe will infect you with a passion for War.
there has been a few official videos and movies released over the long life of 40k even a few live action shorts like "The Inquisitor" and "The Hive " back in the 90's - they were on VHS top but its almost always very bad - the only really good animations and adaptations comes from passion projects of the fans but sadly GW as been on a very odd "you cant use our IP in anyway" shift as of late banning and in some cases threating to sue =/
StarCraft was originally supposed to be a Warhammer game but some of the design team didn't like the darkness and absurdity of Warhammer so they broke off and made there own company.
@@sagittariusa9012 Warcraft was heavily inspired by original Warhammer (the fantasy version) and its associated materials (and its own inspirations). Starcraft was specifically created as a 40K game, but Blizzard didn't end up getting the rights to use the 40K license - so they turned it into Starcraft.
@@thegreatsagesun opposite actually. Warcraft was supposed to be warhammer fantasy before GW pulled plug. Starcraft started as something close to warhammer 40k but blizzard realized there is no need to borrow ip when they create their own, so they made starcraft with brand new ip.
Either way, original Blizzard staff were and still are huge Warhammer fans. When Metzen announced his new studio, he mentioned Warhammer, but didnt say Warcraft or Starcraft even once.
*TL;DR at the bottom* Hey, i can't think of specific books or videos that talk in detail about them off the top of my head but since you mentioned you wanted to know about important aspects of the lore i'll mention the four big events in 40k that shape the entire storyline. 1: War in Heaven. 65 million years ago the necrons got into a fight with the cliche precursor race that is in every scifi setting, called the old ones. The necrons used to be organic but in order to win against the old ones (and cure mega cancer) they created a race of gods called the c'tan who then tricked them into becoming soulless robots, at least until the king of the necrons pulled a no u, shattered the c'tan and trapped the shards into some constructs that could harness their power. They then proceeded to slaughter the old ones, despite the eldar and krorks (precursors to orks, but much bigger, faster *and smarter* which is concerning) trying to help. After this the necrons were damaged so they went to sleep for millions of years, meanwhile the krorks devolved into orks and the eldar filled the power vacuum. Also, all the souls of the old ones who were murdered created chaos. Big oopsie. 2: birth of slaanesh. As i said, the eldar became the dominant species in the galaxy. So dominant that they became decadent and hedonistic, and like the video mentioned some of them got into t**ture p**n. Being all psykers this whole mass of warp energy got really mixed up by these hedonistic emotions, and around 25k A.D. it got to a point of no return, when the warp got fucked up enough to birth the chaos god of excess and pleasure, slaanesh. He/she/it killed 90% of the eldar in one moment, fucked with their souls a bunch and tore a giant hole between real space and the warp called the eye of terror (this is a surprise tool that will help us later). The opening of the eye caused warp storms everywhere, making warp travel at ftl speeds impossible for humans, so the elves weren't the only ones affected (or maybe i'm remembering wrong and the eye made the storms stop, can't remember). Humans called the period where the storms were active the age of strife, since we couldn't go from planet to planet anymore and human psykers started popping up, therefore sometimes leading to whole wordls being invaded by demons. Kind of a bad situation. 3: horus heresy. This mostly affects humanity and not many other races but we're the pov so it's one of the most documented events. After the emperor took command of earth (this was a bit after the eye of terror thing, around 30k), he created his legions of space marines to act as soldiers, and -20- 18 sons called primarchs to lead them as generals. One of these was horus lupercal. Despite being the favourite son of the emperor, a lot of shenanigans happened, often involving another primarch called lorgar and his sidekick erebus (fuck erebus, all my homies hate erebus), and as such he fell to chaos and convinced eight of his brothers to lead all their legions to earth and overthrow the emperor in the name of chaos. This sparked a massive civil war between loyalists and traitors, which also had side effects with other factions like the guard and admech (not mentioned here sadly). The loyalists won, but like luetin mentioned the emperor was gravely wounded and placed on the golden throne, a giant life support machine that also amplifies his psychic signals to act as a beacon for imperial ships to travel in the warp. If the emperor died, not only would it be catastrophic for the morale of the imperium who sees him as a god, but it would make all ftl useless again, locking countless worlds outside of reach for food or military help. So overall nobody came out victorious from that affair, except khorne probably. 4: fall of cadia. Very recent. Year 40999. Chaos wanted another go at the whole destroying humanity thing, so they came out of the eye of terror for the thirteenth black crusade led by abaddon the despoiler, formerly right hand man of horus and now supreme commander of chaos (kinda) after horus was killed. Cadia was a military planet next to the eye, meant to guard humanity against chaos. They fought against the chaos invaders and were actually mostly successful, also thanks to the help of some weird individuals like an admech mad scientist called cawl, the general of the space marine legion called the ultramarines, marneus calgar, and weirdly enough an eldar woman called yvraine and a necron overlord called trazyn. Trazyn released some of his captured live specimens (long story, he's great) to help in the fight and also activated some special pillars that mamaged to temporarily shrink the eye, while yvraine managed to resurrect one of the loyalist primarchs, roboute guilliman, leader of those ultramarines i mentioned. Sadly it didn't matter too much because when abaddon was about to fail he threw a blackstone fortress (the death star from star wars but to 40k scale so ludicrously bigger) at the planet of cadia, cracking it, destroying it, and making the hole of the eye of terror much worse, turning it into the great rift separating two parts of the galaxy who now can't communicate that well with eachother and can't ftl from one to another. Sadge. Now that i think about it you could watch episode 15 of emperor tts, which also has a big lore recap like mine, but at that point might as well watch the whole series since it's great. We still miss it. *TL;DR* four main events. 1, war in heaven, necrons murder gods creating chaos then create other gods then capture them then go to sleep, leaving the krorks to become dumb and the eldar as dominant. 2, slaanesh, the eldar fuck so much that they create a god of excess that kills most of them and is a nuisance to everyone. 3, horus heresy, half of the human forces turn to chaos and start a civil war. Emperor gets wounded. 4, fall of cadia, planet go boom and the imperium is split in half, but at least the emperor's son is alive and enjoying some elfussy.
The "spider-eyes mutant" is a traiter astartes from the traiter legion known as the Death Guard, a legion that has aligned, alongside their formor primarch, now demon prince, Mortarian, with the chaos god of decay, Nurgle, The Plague Father.
As someone who is versed in Starcraft but is just learning more about 40k, you guys got it all wrong, GW and Blizzard were meant to collaborate on Warcraft in making a Warhammer fantasy game, but they had some licensing issues and GW pulled out which was a lot like the Nintendo Playstation situation, Blizzard then went on to make Warcraft their own thing, Starcraft on the other hand like 40k took it's liberties from the 1950s Starship Troopers novel, while the xenos like Zerg are a mixture of those space bugs from starship troopers and Xenomorphs you could see a Hydralisk looking pretty similar, while the Protoss are the steroetypical grey aliens but on steroids with a sense of honor like the Predators, hell both have dreadlocks and use wristblades on melee. Also the Tyranids got their current look back on 2002 which is 3 years after the original Starcraft came out.
Cool thing abut the orks, they actually have to fight or get sick and die. also they use teeth as currency, and it rotts, so they have a few reasons to be always fighting.
16:35 The Zerg were based on the Tyranids because Starcraft original ment to be a 40K game. But for some reason GW cancelled the deal.... bad move in retrospective.
it was just warcraft that was supposed to be warhammer. blizzard had already decided to cut ties with GW and keep their IP ownership by the time starcraft was made
The Zerg were NOT based on the Tyranids, because the art director for Starcraft said that when he started designing the Zerg, he didn't even know what the fuck the Tyranids WERE.
Once you start to get to know the lore, you should really check out Bruva Alfabusa's: "If the Emperor had a text-to-speech device" or commonly abbreviated to "TTS" series
The huge red guy with horns and multicolored wings is an entity known as Magnus the Red. Formally one of the 20 Primarchs of the imperium of man, now tragically a demon prince of chaos. He is the commander and gene-father of the traiter astartes legion known as The Thousand Suns and a servant of the chaos god of change known as Tzeentch, The changer of the Ways.
Ork lore is interesting because they've basically won the game as far as the setting is concerned: their end goal is essentially fulfilled. They get to fight. There's no angst about one's purpose, because an Ork is supposed to krump, smash, stomp, chop and shoot things. And if whatever they're acting those upon fights back, that's all the better. There's no frustration about one's station in life, because if an Ork thinks he should have a higher station, he'll get bigger until he can challenge the current holder of the position. If he dies, at least he tried; if he wins, he's got that position. This cycle repeats up to the Warboss level. Each and every interstellar Waagh has started because a regular Ork somewhere thought he'd be the biggest and baddest Warboss. There's no real poverty among the Orkz, because their currency is their teeth, which are perishable. Either they take their own teeth (they regrow) and/or other Orkz' teef, or they directly barter loot. There are no concerns about education, because if an Ork has a scholarly bent to his character, it's genetically programmed and he'll become a tinker or a doctor by instinct. There's no nepotism among the Orkz, because they all grow from shrooms in the dirt. But if you're born a Grot in Ork society, then sucks to be you.
No that’s not “Van Helsing” that’s Katarinya Greyfax. She’s an Inquisitor. And the “Angel mutant thing” is Celestine the Living Saint. As for the “big boy” with the wings, I think that was Magnus the Red. One of the Traitor Primarchs.
What if I tell you that not only StarCraft was inspired by Warhammer 40000, that but Warcraft was also influenced by Warhammer Fantasy Battles (which in fact was an original Games Worksop with 40k being created as a sci-fi version of it)? 😅
ohh as a side note, its typically regarded as good faith if you put the link to the original video in your description so that interested people can check out the source content if they want to.
The dude with the wings is Magnus the Red, one of the original space marine leaders who turned to chaos and now serves the Lord of Change (hail tzeentch)
Majorkill and Lutien (from this video) do great short videos, Majorkill is more batshit insane cause he is an Aussie while Lutien is not. You can probably guess the one I prefer (sets table on fire)
A funny story of the Orks. Keep in mind they are kinda dumb but if enough believe in one thing it somehow happenes (the power of imagination). One of their space ships broke and a small grew went outside to repair it with no spacesuits and where perfectly fine. Meanwhile another ship joined to help and they where like "oi you die if you stay in space without your suits." ... uppon hearing this the first crew instantly died.
The only worthy price of cinematography in 40k at the time is "Astartes" short film, but it requires somewhat deep knowledge of lore and much attention (as it heavily relies on visual storytelling and almost every shot has important narrative details).
@@decimusdecius7858 well, yeah, but I'd rather say it's fanbase-wise good, in terms of general quality (and production quality in particular) it is merely digestible for someone who is clueless about wh40k.
@@decimusdecius7858 well, yeah, but I'd rather say it's fanbase-wise good, in terms of general quality (and production quality in particular) it is merely digestible for someone who is clueless about wh40k.
I would recommend the Genestealers cults videos from the official Warhammer channel. They encompass so well what it means to be a genestealers. The ork lore is indeed a bit meh, in terms of depth. However, they started at a really intelligent and physically strong race. Parts of the lore I know, that are interesting are the war of the Beast, the Octarious Tyranid Ork war.
In the imperium there are figures regarded as "living saints. Individuals believed to be blessed with mighty power by the emperor of mankind himself. The angel is known as Saint Celestine.
I'm pretty sure the Zerg _aren't_ a shameless rip of the Tyranids, considering that the art director for Starcraft says when he started designing the Zerg, he didn't even know what a Tyranid WAS.
I can recommend some books. I love the Night lords trilogy, the Infinite and the Divine, the Ciaphas Cain novels, and Ghazkul Thraka Prophet of the WAAGH! The night lords novels gives you insight into traitor Marines that don’t actively like the Chaos gods and actually shun their brothers that submit to chaos. Also the g in WAAGH is silent (pronounced like wah)
@Onan - Son of Judah Brother of Er If you look at the stat blocks, the ONLY difference between an Eldar Guardian and the Imperial Guard is that the Eldar are slightly faster (7" vs 6"), a slightly better WS and BS (3+ instead of 4+), and have a better armor save (4+ instead of 5+). They have the same Strength, same Toughness, same Wounds, and slightly _worse_ Leadership (6 instead of 7). So looking at them purely by their statistics blocks, they're faster, fight better, and have better armor, but are EXACTLY as strong as baseline humans. Now, from the _fluff_ point of view... that's different.
Various other factions are playable and a new one will be launched by next year, the space dwarves (a 3rd reimagining of this faction). Leagues of votaan.
If you are keen to checking out more of the lore of WH40 I would recommend More of luetin09 videos. Essentially the playlist on his channel titled Warhammer 40k lore history.
are the 40 k movies.... kinda, helsreach, the astartes series, various short films like guardsmen and so on. oh and event horizon was inspired by 40 k. i'm sure there are others. oh also the last church.
Yeah at the 3min mark they were Necrons. On the cost of Necrons depending on the size of your army lol my necron force is huge lol. It’s also millions of year that the Necrons were sleeping, they had their minds downloaded into new bodies, the more important they were, the better this process they went through and so retains various levels of intelligence.
Let's be honest my dude, once you fall into the world of 40K, EVERY army eventually becomes huge. Do you need to build the whole chapter of your favorite SM army? No. Do you need an army for each god of Chaos AND one for Undivided? No. Do you need a guard army so large you need to evaluate what vehicle you own to transport it? No. But eventually we all cross that Rubicon and just accept our allotted fates.
"Are there movies?" Only one really. It was 'inspired' by 40k. Games Workshop wouldnt let it be official, so if you actually dont know anything about 40k, the warp, and chaos, you'd never know it as a 40k movie. It is a movie about mankinds first attempt using the warp. They knew nothing about what the warp was, or what dwelled within, and our cast then has to deal with the results of the Chaos corruption left behind within the ship they are sent to rescue. The Movie is called "Event Horizon" and was very well done, and very well liked by most who saw it. Even those who know nothing of 40k. ruclips.net/video/XNdUDLvvNR4/видео.html&ab_channel=TheCriticalDrinker
40k is much older than Warcraft & Starcraft. Blizzard use to work for Games Workshop. Blizzard wanted to make a medieval fantasy based on 40k called Orks vs Humans. GW turned them down. Then Blizzard left, started their own company, then renamed their game to Warcraft. Starcraft is more of a rip off of 40k since Blizzard was fully aware of 40k before they ever came up with Starcraft. Terrans = Imperium Zerg = Tyranids Protoss = Eldar Xel'Naga = Old Ones In 40k, the Old Ones created all life in the galaxy. However it is unknown if the Tyranids evolved on their own or not cause they were in other galaxies long before the Old Ones were killed off. Major difference: Every Hive Fleet has a Hive Mind, and there isn't a "Overmind" equivalent. Their entire goal is to literally eat every single planet in the galaxy. With the Zerg, you at least have a chance of joining their ranks. With the Tyranids, you are nothing but food to them, there is nothing you can offer them that would stop them from eating you. When you think about it, the Zerg are nicer.
The best video to learn all about the Imperium of Man's history and of course the Emperor of Man himself is another Luetin09 video right here: ruclips.net/video/KyPjE1Sn-Ts/видео.html I look forward to seeing more 40k stuff from you, best of luck on your RUclips channel!
The emperor protects! If you like reading or audiobooks it would be the best way to get into the 40k universe. The stories are fantastic (sure not all but the most). I recommend the eisenhorn series or the nightlords trilogy. When you get hooked, one way or the other, you can work your way through the horus heresy books and so on. Have fun!
There should not be any argument about this. Warhammer 40k was a tabletop game that debuted in 1987. Games Workshop was founded in 1975. Blizzard didn't exist yet until 1991. When PCs started to become more prevalent, Games Workshop decided branch out in that direction. Games Workshop's primary focus is tabletop gaming. Alot of people are claiming that Blizzard was working with Games Workshop which is totally not true and totally b*llsh*t.
Pin head...dont even come close to 40k, if I described the size and horror of 40k as a Grizly bear, Pin head/Hellraiser would be maybe a Field Mouse? and that would be me being charitable to Hellraiser/Pinhead (a single Bacteria would be a better size comparison)
FBJ: its like starcraft! starcraft was meant to be a WH 40k game, but they didn't get the rights for it. so they changed some things and the result was starcraft.
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Starcraft was originally going to be a licensed 40K video game, but Games Workshop and Blizzard had a falling out over the direction Blizzard wanted to take the story. GW withdrew from their agreement and Blizzard repurposed what had already been developed into Starcraft. The story is similar for Warcraft, and that's why Warcraft orcs are green.
it was just warcraft that was supposed to be warhammer. starcraft was developed with 40k inspiration of course, but they werent making it for gw
@@smghunter it was starcraft, @legionareb is right
@@BigBex the producer for warcraft says otherwise. He says it in the warcraft art section of his blog
@@smghunter he can say wathever he want, just see the space marines vs starcraft marines, zerg vs Tyrannids and eldars vs protoss....
@@javierpeiroaguado4503 I don't doubt that 40k inspired star craft, but the game that blizzard made to try to get warhammer licensing was warcraft, not starcraft
Question to all sci fi fans "do you wish to live in your favorite SF world ?"
Star Trek fans ; "Of course !!"
Star Wars fans ; "Oh yeah sure !!"
Expanse fans ; "Could be awesome !!"
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WH40K fans ; "HELL NOOOOO !!"
The heroes in 40k get cool deaths, sometimes..
Speak for yourself, fixed bayonets against Tyranids as a guardsmen would be a great death. To serve the Emperor is a gift
@@mraj5840 For the Emperor!
I want to be a servoskull!
WAAAAGH!!!
I will once again say, you need to react to both parts of "Every Single Warhammer 40k (WH40k) Faction Explained" by Bricky. They go into more detail on the individual factions and are pretty funny.
Yeah this video was like a less detailed and more dry version of brickys introduction. It had a lot of good art though. The aesthetic of warhammer really is unique. As fbj noted, humanity in 40k is a much more interesting faction then humans in just about any other sci fy. Always so sanitized and striving to be congruent with the beliefs and values of today instead of considering how they might change in the future, and not for the better.
Got Part 1 and 2 both already on the list i just had that as my first recommendation from a Friend. But the list of stuff to watch is already pretty big. I think im gonna switch between cinematics and lore Videos for some variety but im not completely sure yet.
@@FBJ_TV In name of Machine spirit... start the ritual of hit the space button when you react :)
Bricky is good and fun he also does the adeptus ridiculous as some may have mentioned (he's not the most accurate lore wise but one of the most entertaining 40k people) luetin is good far more accuracy but a little dry, I'd say 40k theories and boldermort are right between these two.
@@garethmitchell7723 Honestly I wouldnt compare baldermort to any of them, hes way above the rest. He literally writes stories and voice acts them in a way that satisfies lore. The rest just report what they learned.
Fun fact: the 40k ships (the smallest class being around the size of a star destroyer from star wars, 1.6 kms long) can fight at 25/50/75/95% of the speed of light, all the ships fights you will ever see in cinematic are not meant to be seen by human eyes (with exceptions)
What does that even mean? All speed in space is relative so if you are fighting another ship it's the relative speed of the ships that matters. If two ships are traveling 50% the speed of light in the same direction the engament is happening at 0 velocity.
They clearly don't approach each other at anything like that velocity as if they did they would just shoot past and that would be it. Since they actually manoeuvre in combat it's clearly not the case.
Maybe someone at GW who doesn't understand basic physics wrote that but it's clearly rubbish.
@@101Mant the lore says so, like the phalanx in the book "flight of the Einstein" (though it wasn't fighting, it was still travelling in real space at 75% of the speed of light) plus i was referring from the outside perspective, us, the 40k ships engages at first at distant lenghts of hundreads of thousands of kms with weapons such as black hole launchers (the example of the speranza mechanicus capital ship), nova cannons etc... To later engage in closer quarters with lanches and then even closer with macrocannons and similar weapons
The eldar ships are more agile and faster than imperial ships and are said to be able to dodge macrocannons (which travel at 50% of the speed of light or more or less, the macrocannon shell firepower changes every book, for example in one, a cobra class destroyer (1.5kms) had macrocannon shells (50 meters large at least) capable of three teratons of firepower, and in others is much less. it's not realistic i know, it just does, and even then, the lore is quite fragmented here and there)
If we have to put an imperial star destroyer (SW) against a cobra class destroyer, the ISD crew couldn't even see (theoretically) the 40k ship as the cobra travels at 95% of light while the ISD (at minimum, travels at a thousand km/s) which is impressive but thousands, if not millions of times slower than the cobra class, making it impossible to be seen by the isd crew
i know physic very poorly, so... sorry for saying something wrong, i don't know how such different speeds interacts with the crew of both sides, i just know that without some technology the iom ships have, for which we don't know nothing, the only guess i can make is something that slow time inside the ships, otherwise the crew would just die in either getting squashed from the speeds, and they also couldn't guide the ship or fire the weapons properly
@@valostheroman The black library authors have put out a reasonable amount of contradictory information with how things work over the years, so you can take some of it with a pinch of salt, especially when there can be so many contributors and perceptions of the lore. General speed and speed in battle are going to be 2 different things as well, there'd be little point of blitzing past them in a flash especially if you missed the shots taken. A lot of the Imperiums strongest weapons primarily face forwards of the ships so you will want to spend as much time facing them before you close in with a slower speed to utilise the broadsides and boarding actions.
Whilst the ISD crew may not be able to see the ship with their own eyes, which would be expected being in the void at incredible distances or even speed if flying by, the ships targetting systems and sensors probably can
As mentioned above, its about relative speeds, you may feel the pull that you get from fast acceleration but when maintaining a speed there is no sensation, the weapons firing rounds that fast would be dealt with by the recoil of the weapon, unless you're touching it, you wouldn't be impacted by it.
@@chrisf7730 the sensors detecting them would make very little to help them, the isd weapons are operated by humans and not by ais, and even if they were actually manged by an ai, as we have seen, the artificial intelligence in star wars is mostly human-ranged (*MOSTLY*) and can reacts with little difference from the standard human, their reaction time is simply not enought to compete, meanwhile the cobra class is probably making fun of them for some time manipulation technology inside the ship, which is probably the best explaination about those fights (the imperium of man, while technologically stagnant, it does have some, like the stasis bombs), i stated the phalanx earlier simply because i don't remember where the battles which quoted the lunar class cruiser speed or the gloriana speed are from, the phalanx quote is the only one i remember the book
20:04 the red dude is called "magnus the red" and he is basically the supreme leader of the thousand sons (the egyption-esque chaos space marines that he is shown with)
the lore on the faciton is really tragic and good if you want to dig into it ^^
_dust in the wind_
Nobody better to explain 40k than Leutin.
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Maybe Majorkill if you have ADD and want the fast and cheeky version
"So much in one universe" awww honey you are not ready
" Ravenor Trilogy " and " Eisenhorn Trilogy ". A very good place to start reading about the 40K universe that does not make you jump straight into space marine dominated mass slaughter stories.
Agreed, Eisenhorn is one of the best entry points into the novels. The other great place to start is with Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium.
@@PreceptorGrant I was about to suggest Ciaphas Cain. That series was my doorway into the WH40K world, because it's generally easily digestible and understandable, even if you don't QUITE get the details at first. I wasn't entirely sure what the difference between a boltgun and a stubber was until he describes bolt shells as basically micro-sized gyrojet rocket bullets with mass-reactive explosive tips, and that stubbers were basically just slug-throwing guns. Ciaphas Cain is a great starting point, and good for a chuckle as well. One of the few places you'll actually find laughs in that horrible universe.
The other would be ironic humor, like Iron Snakes marines puzzling over why they'd been invited to a party, or their confusion when someone says they all look the same when they can see all the myriad details that define each other. Or the time when, after his brothers found his severed arm in a room full of dead Orks and presumed dead, Alessio Cortez's flippant response to his Chapter Master pointing out he's missing an arm. "No I'm not. It's over there!" At which point he just casually walks over, picks up his severed arm and hooks if over his shoulder as if it was a towel. (I think they ended up putting his arm back on later, surgically reinstalling it). It was either that, or he said something like "Oh there it is. I was looking for that!"
Daemon Culaba is the way to go XD
Sandy Mitchell and Dan Abnett are perfect writers for ones who have just begun to immerse into WH40k or Horus Heresy. Good choice.
I started with The Horus Heresy a few months ago, 3 books in and I MAY have bitten off more than I can chew. . .
"Cuz is the cheapest" he says as i spend 300 euros to build a new SMALL army of imperial guard
The Orks are the only ones having fun in this universe.
Its the reason they're my favorite faction, in a universe where everyone tries to outdo the other with dark broodiness, they're actually enjoying themselves and don't take themselves to seriously.
Orks are essentially "Mad Max meets the power of positive thinking."
Red tingz go fastah
The best part is StarCraft is basically 40k with no license.
Yeah, Warhammer 40k has been going on since 1987, and we are currently at the 9th Edition of rules, miniatures, and lore, as the three are inexorably linked. Games Workshop also has a division called Black Library dedicated to publishing their Warhammer Fantasy and 40k novels and audio dramas, and they've been going at it since 1997. So yeah. They've got a LOT under their belt.
As an aside, the Horus Heresy series of novels has seen some success in the wider markets outside of the 40k fandom, and I would recommend picking up a copy of the first book, 'Horus Rising', once you start familiarizing yourself with the setting some more.
Fun Fact - Star Craft was originally supposed to be a 40K game. The Tyranids are why we have the Zerg.
Unproven. Neither side will admit it because reasons. The artist who designed the Zerg claims that when he started designing the Zerg, he literally had NO IDEA what the Tyranids were. (Whether that's true, or whether he's just following the company line of "admit nothing", we'll probably never know.)
I feel like when you look at the older tyanid models, you more see more of what influenced the zerg.
Also the human marines have a lot of visual similarities to Warhammer's Space Marines.
And with a bit of a strech Protoss are similar to Craftworld Eldars with them having technology far superior to humans.
The first recognizable incarnation of Tyranid warriors appeared in Advanced Space Crusade in 1990... Starcraft was first made in 1998 ... so warhammer 40k was there first ... Blizzard was not even a THING back then ... the was first made in 1991 ...
@@istrysii Its not a competition who invented them first , they where working on it together but split up midway
Luetin09, I don't even play Warhammer 40k, but I watch all of his videos, they are that good. Ive read in many comments that there are many like me, Luetin09 videos are entertaining and pull you into a world that you are normally not involved in or have any connections with.
Ironic that the emperor wanted to destroy religion to get rid of the chaos gods, but humanity's worship of him has (as I understand it) actually made him into a 5th (6th?) Chaos god with all the powers that entails
We don't talk about malice no no no.
Luetin09, Baldemorts guide to warhammer, and Oculus imperia are all very well made 40k lore channels
And then there are less well made lore channels like adeptus ridiculous, which are still great but for different reasons.
Check Event Horizon this movie is called in the Community the first contact with the warp.
warhammer 40k is not about videos. It's about reading.
Almost all of videos about 40k lore is fan made.
But as a neopyhte to universe, video format is better to initially understand the lore.
While this guy is mostly right, "Helsreach" is a fantastic warhammer fan-animation that should be good for reacting to. And there are animations by someone named "Sodaz" which are archived on youtube and should be free game for reactions. And there is always the ever controversial warhammer + which is actually pumping out a lot of lore accurate warhammer animations, about 1 every 2 weeks. (although the animation quality itself varies and you cant react their shows without something like a timer)
I'm a fanboi for the lore - I've bought most of the limited editions and special releases, and each book brings twists and new light to the universe. Books like Horus Rising, Brotherhood of the Snake, and the Ciaphas Cain series are brilliant and immersive. I am thankful for the authors of the 40k universe to bring so much joy not just to me, but to many others in the fandom.
Warhammer is about a tabletop game wdym, you can take any medias to get into the hobby. No need to read this or that
@@lucasstr5653 Sounds like you never played it.... every single rule book comes with a lot of lore and fluff to read.
@@nullakjg767 While yes, one can easly ignore the lore part in the codex and just play the game with the rules and minis
There is in theory a 40k movie made, but it's quality is so bad that it's not worth watching.
BUT there exists a 40k series that is basically like a move. It's fan made like so many great 40k videos. It's called Helsreach and is 13 parts.
You also don't need super deep lore knowledge to start watching it.
I was going to say check out Luetin09, then it's the first video you watched lol. He's great at exploring the lore and makes great videos.
40k Orks: “Waaaagh!”
Space Marines: “Aaaarrrgggh!”
Imperial Guard: “Yaaargh!”
Sisters of Battle: “Haaaargh!”
Tyranids: “Nomnomnomnom!”
Necrons: “..............”
Eldar: “I am surrounded by primitives.”
20:56 This is one of the "adepta sororitas", basically a battle nun faction because the church was forbidden to have (male) soldiers so they dont gain too much military power ... so they just rolled with it and exploited the shit out of this loophole.
And the funny thing is ... the prayers do seam to work sometimes as their faction is known to work wonders that seem impossible at first. (one of them is even basically immortal from what i understand .. or more speciffic gets revived over and over again, but memory on that part is a little fuzzy for me)
Well, that one in particular seemed to have been what the Adepta Sororitas call a "Living Saint".
It is a great reaction that you make about the Warhammer universe but let me give you a clarification on a topic that other users have commented on but is wrong. We must start by saying that neither Starcraft nor Warcraft were going to be GW games since there was never any agreement or deal between the two companies. That is a lie told by a famous old fan forum created by wh fans that the majority of the fandom believed without have even investigated. Regarding the similarities, it is simple, both Blizzard and GW were inspired by the same works for their universes, being DUNE, starshiptroopers, alien xenomorph, Ender's Game, the novel among others, so they share basic concepts of science fiction.
PD: Warhammer 40k was born as a parody of everything famous from the 80s in addition to copying and pasting many fantasy elements into space in order to sell more.
14:30 as for the Tau "diplomacy" .. it has a very dark side to it.
The basic structure ist that for around 100 years or so they really do try to be diplomatic with you, but wont stop until your race/planet submits to the tau to be integraded "for the greater good"
After that grace period they are going to ask you one last time if you wont join the tau empire (and basically submit yourself fully and handig over all governance over yourselves) ... if your answer ist still "no" .. the tau have basically had enough of your shit and start indaving your territory to take you by force.
And since they operate huge ass mechas with unbelieveably strong weaponary piloted by elite forces that are hyper specialized in what they do, the outcome is basically your civilization gets wiped out.
And to make them even more dangerous to the setting in its whole ... these giant space-faring mechas with extremely advanced weapons technology are built by a race (the tau themselves) that is barely 3000 years old since they discovered the use of fire.
THATS how crazily fast they advance their civilization.
For Me, I play the games and learn the story along the way because it is straight up impossible learn and know everything because it is so deep and complicated. So find a faction that interests you and go from there. Great reaction vid. This universe will infect you with a passion for War.
there has been a few official videos and movies released over the long life of 40k even a few live action shorts like "The Inquisitor" and "The Hive " back in the 90's - they were on VHS top but its almost always very bad - the only really good animations and adaptations comes from passion projects of the fans but sadly GW as been on a very odd "you cant use our IP in anyway" shift as of late banning and in some cases threating to sue =/
Still greatly upsets me
Untill they stop im not buying anything from them
I wholeheartedly recommend you check out Helsreach. A fan made 40K animation film adapted from one of the finest books in the Black Library.
Watch Event Horizon. It is universally accepted as a Pre-40K movie.
Yes, it shows you what happens if you travel to another star and back without shielding against the... things... that exist outside of reality.
@@NuclearFridge1 Or at least what happens when the shortest route from Point A to Point B is to take a shortcut through hell.
40k is just so much fun :) and Luetin09, Arch and all the others do such a good job making it just that bit more fun
That "angel" is something called "Imperial Saint" - one of few with faith in Emperor so strong made into manifest miracles.
Either that or they are the equivalent of a Daemon to the God-Emperor.
@@falsehero2001 *greater daemon
@@falsehero2001 *greater daemon
@@falsehero2001 Same thing as said above really
@@valhalanguardsman2588 you mean daemon prince?
Luetin09 is in my opinion better to treat as a podcast, but that’s just me lol
StarCraft was originally supposed to be a Warhammer game but some of the design team didn't like the darkness and absurdity of Warhammer so they broke off and made there own company.
No, Warcraft was supposed to be a Warhammer game. Starcraft was just a big middle finger to Gamesworkshop.
@@sagittariusa9012 Warcraft was heavily inspired by original Warhammer (the fantasy version) and its associated materials (and its own inspirations).
Starcraft was specifically created as a 40K game, but Blizzard didn't end up getting the rights to use the 40K license - so they turned it into Starcraft.
@@thegreatsagesun The internet says the opposite :)
@@thegreatsagesun opposite actually. Warcraft was supposed to be warhammer fantasy before GW pulled plug. Starcraft started as something close to warhammer 40k but blizzard realized there is no need to borrow ip when they create their own, so they made starcraft with brand new ip.
Either way, original Blizzard staff were and still are huge Warhammer fans. When Metzen announced his new studio, he mentioned Warhammer, but didnt say Warcraft or Starcraft even once.
*TL;DR at the bottom*
Hey, i can't think of specific books or videos that talk in detail about them off the top of my head but since you mentioned you wanted to know about important aspects of the lore i'll mention the four big events in 40k that shape the entire storyline.
1: War in Heaven. 65 million years ago the necrons got into a fight with the cliche precursor race that is in every scifi setting, called the old ones. The necrons used to be organic but in order to win against the old ones (and cure mega cancer) they created a race of gods called the c'tan who then tricked them into becoming soulless robots, at least until the king of the necrons pulled a no u, shattered the c'tan and trapped the shards into some constructs that could harness their power. They then proceeded to slaughter the old ones, despite the eldar and krorks (precursors to orks, but much bigger, faster *and smarter* which is concerning) trying to help. After this the necrons were damaged so they went to sleep for millions of years, meanwhile the krorks devolved into orks and the eldar filled the power vacuum. Also, all the souls of the old ones who were murdered created chaos. Big oopsie.
2: birth of slaanesh. As i said, the eldar became the dominant species in the galaxy. So dominant that they became decadent and hedonistic, and like the video mentioned some of them got into t**ture p**n. Being all psykers this whole mass of warp energy got really mixed up by these hedonistic emotions, and around 25k A.D. it got to a point of no return, when the warp got fucked up enough to birth the chaos god of excess and pleasure, slaanesh. He/she/it killed 90% of the eldar in one moment, fucked with their souls a bunch and tore a giant hole between real space and the warp called the eye of terror (this is a surprise tool that will help us later). The opening of the eye caused warp storms everywhere, making warp travel at ftl speeds impossible for humans, so the elves weren't the only ones affected (or maybe i'm remembering wrong and the eye made the storms stop, can't remember). Humans called the period where the storms were active the age of strife, since we couldn't go from planet to planet anymore and human psykers started popping up, therefore sometimes leading to whole wordls being invaded by demons. Kind of a bad situation.
3: horus heresy. This mostly affects humanity and not many other races but we're the pov so it's one of the most documented events. After the emperor took command of earth (this was a bit after the eye of terror thing, around 30k), he created his legions of space marines to act as soldiers, and -20- 18 sons called primarchs to lead them as generals. One of these was horus lupercal. Despite being the favourite son of the emperor, a lot of shenanigans happened, often involving another primarch called lorgar and his sidekick erebus (fuck erebus, all my homies hate erebus), and as such he fell to chaos and convinced eight of his brothers to lead all their legions to earth and overthrow the emperor in the name of chaos. This sparked a massive civil war between loyalists and traitors, which also had side effects with other factions like the guard and admech (not mentioned here sadly). The loyalists won, but like luetin mentioned the emperor was gravely wounded and placed on the golden throne, a giant life support machine that also amplifies his psychic signals to act as a beacon for imperial ships to travel in the warp. If the emperor died, not only would it be catastrophic for the morale of the imperium who sees him as a god, but it would make all ftl useless again, locking countless worlds outside of reach for food or military help. So overall nobody came out victorious from that affair, except khorne probably.
4: fall of cadia. Very recent. Year 40999. Chaos wanted another go at the whole destroying humanity thing, so they came out of the eye of terror for the thirteenth black crusade led by abaddon the despoiler, formerly right hand man of horus and now supreme commander of chaos (kinda) after horus was killed. Cadia was a military planet next to the eye, meant to guard humanity against chaos. They fought against the chaos invaders and were actually mostly successful, also thanks to the help of some weird individuals like an admech mad scientist called cawl, the general of the space marine legion called the ultramarines, marneus calgar, and weirdly enough an eldar woman called yvraine and a necron overlord called trazyn. Trazyn released some of his captured live specimens (long story, he's great) to help in the fight and also activated some special pillars that mamaged to temporarily shrink the eye, while yvraine managed to resurrect one of the loyalist primarchs, roboute guilliman, leader of those ultramarines i mentioned. Sadly it didn't matter too much because when abaddon was about to fail he threw a blackstone fortress (the death star from star wars but to 40k scale so ludicrously bigger) at the planet of cadia, cracking it, destroying it, and making the hole of the eye of terror much worse, turning it into the great rift separating two parts of the galaxy who now can't communicate that well with eachother and can't ftl from one to another. Sadge.
Now that i think about it you could watch episode 15 of emperor tts, which also has a big lore recap like mine, but at that point might as well watch the whole series since it's great. We still miss it.
*TL;DR* four main events. 1, war in heaven, necrons murder gods creating chaos then create other gods then capture them then go to sleep, leaving the krorks to become dumb and the eldar as dominant.
2, slaanesh, the eldar fuck so much that they create a god of excess that kills most of them and is a nuisance to everyone.
3, horus heresy, half of the human forces turn to chaos and start a civil war. Emperor gets wounded.
4, fall of cadia, planet go boom and the imperium is split in half, but at least the emperor's son is alive and enjoying some elfussy.
The "spider-eyes mutant" is a traiter astartes from the traiter legion known as the Death Guard, a legion that has aligned, alongside their formor primarch, now demon prince, Mortarian, with the chaos god of decay, Nurgle, The Plague Father.
As someone who is versed in Starcraft but is just learning more about 40k, you guys got it all wrong, GW and Blizzard were meant to collaborate on Warcraft in making a Warhammer fantasy game, but they had some licensing issues and GW pulled out which was a lot like the Nintendo Playstation situation, Blizzard then went on to make Warcraft their own thing, Starcraft on the other hand like 40k took it's liberties from the 1950s Starship Troopers novel, while the xenos like Zerg are a mixture of those space bugs from starship troopers and Xenomorphs you could see a Hydralisk looking pretty similar, while the Protoss are the steroetypical grey aliens but on steroids with a sense of honor like the Predators, hell both have dreadlocks and use wristblades on melee. Also the Tyranids got their current look back on 2002 which is 3 years after the original Starcraft came out.
I agree with you
Cool thing abut the orks, they actually have to fight or get sick and die. also they use teeth as currency, and it rotts, so they have a few reasons to be always fighting.
16:35 The Zerg were based on the Tyranids because Starcraft original ment to be a 40K game. But for some reason GW cancelled the deal.... bad move in retrospective.
it was just warcraft that was supposed to be warhammer. blizzard had already decided to cut ties with GW and keep their IP ownership by the time starcraft was made
The Zerg were NOT based on the Tyranids, because the art director for Starcraft said that when he started designing the Zerg, he didn't even know what the fuck the Tyranids WERE.
@@SpearM3064 That's realy hard for me to belive based on the many layers of simularities. + That GW and Blizard had a connection prior.
Once you start to get to know the lore, you should really check out Bruva Alfabusa's: "If the Emperor had a text-to-speech device" or commonly abbreviated to "TTS" series
RIP TTS, we miss it. At least the WoD version is also damn good.
Miss that series
When you are interested in Warhammer 40k, watch "Every Warhammer 40k Fraction" by Bricky. It this a amazing step into Warhammer 40k.
The huge red guy with horns and multicolored wings is an entity known as Magnus the Red. Formally one of the 20 Primarchs of the imperium of man, now tragically a demon prince of chaos. He is the commander and gene-father of the traiter astartes legion known as The Thousand Suns and a servant of the chaos god of change known as Tzeentch, The changer of the Ways.
The huge dude with the wings is Magnus the Red.... He did nothing wrong.....
Ork lore is interesting because they've basically won the game as far as the setting is concerned: their end goal is essentially fulfilled. They get to fight.
There's no angst about one's purpose, because an Ork is supposed to krump, smash, stomp, chop and shoot things. And if whatever they're acting those upon fights back, that's all the better.
There's no frustration about one's station in life, because if an Ork thinks he should have a higher station, he'll get bigger until he can challenge the current holder of the position. If he dies, at least he tried; if he wins, he's got that position. This cycle repeats up to the Warboss level. Each and every interstellar Waagh has started because a regular Ork somewhere thought he'd be the biggest and baddest Warboss.
There's no real poverty among the Orkz, because their currency is their teeth, which are perishable. Either they take their own teeth (they regrow) and/or other Orkz' teef, or they directly barter loot.
There are no concerns about education, because if an Ork has a scholarly bent to his character, it's genetically programmed and he'll become a tinker or a doctor by instinct.
There's no nepotism among the Orkz, because they all grow from shrooms in the dirt.
But if you're born a Grot in Ork society, then sucks to be you.
Wh40K has turned the essence of humanity into the perverted.
i love it.
No that’s not “Van Helsing” that’s Katarinya Greyfax. She’s an Inquisitor. And the “Angel mutant thing” is Celestine the Living Saint. As for the “big boy” with the wings, I think that was Magnus the Red. One of the Traitor Primarchs.
what is the music you put because of copyrights ?
I guess it's a music free of rights, were can I find it and what's the name of it ?
amusingly enough the queen of england now has a model in 40k, called lilibet, with an armed golden throne of her own.
a Warhammer 40k space marine chapter would Destroy the Terran Confederacy, Destroy the Zerg, and send the protoss packing all before Emperor's day.
What if I tell you that not only StarCraft was inspired by Warhammer 40000, that but Warcraft was also influenced by Warhammer Fantasy Battles (which in fact was an original Games Worksop with 40k being created as a sci-fi version of it)? 😅
for 40k movies i heartily recomend
- helsreach (should be on youtube)
- astartes
- death of hope
20:56 That is "Celestine, The Living Saint". She's part of the Adepta Sororitas or Sisters of Battle.
ohh as a side note, its typically regarded as good faith if you put the link to the original video in your description so that interested people can check out the source content if they want to.
You should check out more Necrons stuff and the C'tan. Literally star gods who devour stars and later entire races. There are straight horror.
The dude with the wings is Magnus the Red, one of the original space marine leaders who turned to chaos and now serves the Lord of Change (hail tzeentch)
Majorkill and Lutien (from this video) do great short videos, Majorkill is more batshit insane cause he is an Aussie while Lutien is not. You can probably guess the one I prefer (sets table on fire)
My favorite is the Marine’s, with the Grey Knights being my favorite; out of all the adeptus astartes.
A funny story of the Orks. Keep in mind they are kinda dumb but if enough believe in one thing it somehow happenes (the power of imagination).
One of their space ships broke and a small grew went outside to repair it with no spacesuits and where perfectly fine.
Meanwhile another ship joined to help and they where like "oi you die if you stay in space without your suits." ... uppon hearing this the first crew instantly died.
The only worthy price of cinematography in 40k at the time is "Astartes" short film, but it requires somewhat deep knowledge of lore and much attention (as it heavily relies on visual storytelling and almost every shot has important narrative details).
Helsreach also by Richard Boylan, its really good.
@@decimusdecius7858 well, yeah, but I'd rather say it's fanbase-wise good, in terms of general quality (and production quality in particular) it is merely digestible for someone who is clueless about wh40k.
@@decimusdecius7858 well, yeah, but I'd rather say it's fanbase-wise good, in terms of general quality (and production quality in particular) it is merely digestible for someone who is clueless about wh40k.
Warhammer 40k is soooo big they need 4 books just for one battle.
Jupiter looking at Zeus like who are you
How do you beat that?!
With the bolter, the flamer and the melta, we will purge the Mutant, the Xeno and the Heritic.
14:05 Well there are a few 40k animations out there especialy recently.
"is there any 40k movie or series?"
No, not really, but some guy made a short series called: Astarties parts 1-5. Watch then all back to back.
I would recommend the Genestealers cults videos from the official Warhammer channel. They encompass so well what it means to be a genestealers.
The ork lore is indeed a bit meh, in terms of depth. However, they started at a really intelligent and physically strong race. Parts of the lore I know, that are interesting are the war of the Beast, the Octarious Tyranid Ork war.
You need to see Bricky video about all the factions of 40k
please react to Brick's "Every single WH40k Faction explained." It's funny and covers all the basics you need to know about 40k.
It isn't entirely accurate, but it is an amazing starting point as it makes learning the general idea both fun and entertaining.
I have been really enjoying the siege of terra books atm, cant wait for more.
In the imperium there are figures regarded as "living saints. Individuals believed to be blessed with mighty power by the emperor of mankind himself. The angel is known as Saint Celestine.
10:53 that is essentially the entire point of the setting.
14:55 I’m pretty sure the Zerg are a shameless rip of the Tyranids
I'm pretty sure the Zerg _aren't_ a shameless rip of the Tyranids, considering that the art director for Starcraft says when he started designing the Zerg, he didn't even know what a Tyranid WAS.
I can recommend some books. I love the Night lords trilogy, the Infinite and the Divine, the Ciaphas Cain novels, and Ghazkul Thraka Prophet of the WAAGH! The night lords novels gives you insight into traitor Marines that don’t actively like the Chaos gods and actually shun their brothers that submit to chaos. Also the g in WAAGH is silent (pronounced like wah)
The Eldar arer Not weak They are physically imposing and much stronger than most if not all baseline humans
@Onan - Son of Judah Brother of Er If you look at the stat blocks, the ONLY difference between an Eldar Guardian and the Imperial Guard is that the Eldar are slightly faster (7" vs 6"), a slightly better WS and BS (3+ instead of 4+), and have a better armor save (4+ instead of 5+). They have the same Strength, same Toughness, same Wounds, and slightly _worse_ Leadership (6 instead of 7). So looking at them purely by their statistics blocks, they're faster, fight better, and have better armor, but are EXACTLY as strong as baseline humans. Now, from the _fluff_ point of view... that's different.
Skulls are mostly - face of Emperor as it is how he basically look like now...
22:25 Well they don't ahve "A Keringan" but Geensteal cults do have their HQ units. I can't remember her name from the top.
Honestly? A space marine Librarian would deal with Kerrigan without much of a problem. Zeratul was able to
Various other factions are playable and a new one will be launched by next year, the space dwarves (a 3rd reimagining of this faction). Leagues of votaan.
if you are a reader i would recommend "The Black Library" there are hundreds of books from all factions ....................very good reads.
If you are keen to checking out more of the lore of WH40 I would recommend More of luetin09 videos. Essentially the playlist on his channel titled Warhammer 40k lore history.
There is a steam service provide by games workshop.
are the 40 k movies.... kinda, helsreach, the astartes series, various short films like guardsmen and so on. oh and event horizon was inspired by 40 k. i'm sure there are others. oh also the last church.
Yeah at the 3min mark they were Necrons.
On the cost of Necrons depending on the size of your army lol my necron force is huge lol.
It’s also millions of year that the Necrons were sleeping, they had their minds downloaded into new bodies, the more important they were, the better this process they went through and so retains various levels of intelligence.
Let's be honest my dude, once you fall into the world of 40K, EVERY army eventually becomes huge. Do you need to build the whole chapter of your favorite SM army? No. Do you need an army for each god of Chaos AND one for Undivided? No. Do you need a guard army so large you need to evaluate what vehicle you own to transport it? No. But eventually we all cross that Rubicon and just accept our allotted fates.
“Blood for the Blood God!”
if you want a good Warhammer 40k movie look up Helsreach by Richard Boylan. fan made film .
"Are there movies?"
Only one really. It was 'inspired' by 40k. Games Workshop wouldnt let it be official, so if you actually dont know anything about 40k, the warp, and chaos, you'd never know it as a 40k movie.
It is a movie about mankinds first attempt using the warp. They knew nothing about what the warp was, or what dwelled within, and our cast then has to deal with the results of the Chaos corruption left behind within the ship they are sent to rescue.
The Movie is called "Event Horizon" and was very well done, and very well liked by most who saw it. Even those who know nothing of 40k.
ruclips.net/video/XNdUDLvvNR4/видео.html&ab_channel=TheCriticalDrinker
The woman with the wings looks like Saint Celestine.
40k is much older than Warcraft & Starcraft. Blizzard use to work for Games Workshop. Blizzard wanted to make a medieval fantasy based on 40k called Orks vs Humans. GW turned them down. Then Blizzard left, started their own company, then renamed their game to Warcraft.
Starcraft is more of a rip off of 40k since Blizzard was fully aware of 40k before they ever came up with Starcraft.
Terrans = Imperium
Zerg = Tyranids
Protoss = Eldar
Xel'Naga = Old Ones
In 40k, the Old Ones created all life in the galaxy. However it is unknown if the Tyranids evolved on their own or not cause they were in other galaxies long before the Old Ones were killed off.
Major difference: Every Hive Fleet has a Hive Mind, and there isn't a "Overmind" equivalent. Their entire goal is to literally eat every single planet in the galaxy. With the Zerg, you at least have a chance of joining their ranks. With the Tyranids, you are nothing but food to them, there is nothing you can offer them that would stop them from eating you.
When you think about it, the Zerg are nicer.
big Red boy with the horns 20:05 is Magnus the Red, or Magnus the Nerd
The best video to learn all about the Imperium of Man's history and of course the Emperor of Man himself is another Luetin09 video right here: ruclips.net/video/KyPjE1Sn-Ts/видео.html
I look forward to seeing more 40k stuff from you, best of luck on your RUclips channel!
The emperor protects!
If you like reading or audiobooks it would be the best way to get into the 40k universe. The stories are fantastic (sure not all but the most). I recommend the eisenhorn series or the nightlords trilogy. When you get hooked, one way or the other, you can work your way through the horus heresy books and so on. Have fun!
i love when people react to warhammer 40k for the first time, it's a shame GW took down some great fan made movies.
There should not be any argument about this. Warhammer 40k was a tabletop game that debuted in 1987. Games Workshop was founded in 1975. Blizzard didn't exist yet until 1991. When PCs started to become more prevalent, Games Workshop decided branch out in that direction. Games Workshop's primary focus is tabletop gaming. Alot of people are claiming that Blizzard was working with Games Workshop which is totally not true and totally b*llsh*t.
This is a deep rabbit hole you're going to fall down dude.
Well to the Emperors family soldier
I would highly recommend the 5 part series Astates,
You need to watch "Astarties" its a fan based animation ;)
Pin head...dont even come close to 40k, if I described the size and horror of 40k as a Grizly bear, Pin head/Hellraiser would be maybe a Field Mouse? and that would be me being charitable to Hellraiser/Pinhead (a single Bacteria would be a better size comparison)
FBJ: its like starcraft!
starcraft was meant to be a WH 40k game, but they didn't get the rights for it. so they changed some things and the result was starcraft.
I cannot recommend majorkill enough for war hammer videos.
Here 2 40k movies 🎬 a) 🏴Helsreach b) The Last Church ⛪
Bricky and baldermort have good videos here on RUclips for more 40k lore
Who doesn't know what WH40K is? THIS CALLS FOR WAR!!
The big irony to me is that the Imperium is almost the closest thing the game has to 'the good guys' yeh you know everything is fekked